Cerebral Valley – Week of March 31st 🗓

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CV Spotlight: AWS Gen AI Lofts

AWS Gen AI Lofts are coming to 10+ cities worldwide in 2025. From San Francisco to São Paulo, Tel Aviv to Osaka, these pop-up spaces bring together local AI communities, technical experts, and founders to learn, connect, and build in the world of generative AI.

  1. Explore the latest in LLMs, Amazon Bedrock, and AI Agents

  2. Network with industry leaders and innovators

  3. Experience live demos of AI Applications across industries

  4. Get expert support for your AI implementation challenges

  5. Join the growing AI community in your city

CV Spotlight: Tavus

Most AI agents type, or talk. This one looks you in the eye. The Tavus Conversational Video Interface (CVI) lets you build real-time, face-to-face AI video agents that see, listen, and interact just like a human. Whether you're building a virtual companion, assistant, recruiter, healthcare professional, personal tutor, or support agent, CVI gives your app a human presence that feels alive—capable of natural conversation, role play, and anything you can prompt. 

Developers use Tavus to create fully interactive agents powered by any LLM, entirely customizable, scalable, and deployable via API. CVI powers video agents for startups Mercor, Delphi, and Fortune 500s alike, going far beyond basic chat. With conditional function calling, multimodal visual input (emotion + action recognition), and replica-level empathy, these agents don't just respond—they understand, feel, and act. It's not a chatbot. It's not just voice. It's conversation, with a face. 

Build meaningful conversational AI experiences for your users. Get started for free.

Events List

A curated list of upcoming AI events (view all events).

Featured in April:

🗓️ Wednesday, April 9th
📍 San Francisco, CA

About the event

Join AWS experts for an immersive day exploring the intersection of Generative AI and Serverless architecture. You'll learn to build, deploy, and scale GenAI applications that deliver real business value using cloud-native AWS services. Our comprehensive agenda blends expert-led technical sessions, live demonstrations, and hands-on workshops, providing you with deep insights into real-world implementation scenarios and best practices.

You'll also have the opportunity to network with AWS experts, fellow developers, cloud architects, and industry innovators. We'll keep you energized throughout the day with complimentary lunch, refreshments, and a happy hour, ensuring you're at your best for learning and collaboration.


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🗓️ Friday, April 18th
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join a hacker house for 2 days of cluster-scale model training on Strong Compute’s Instant Super Computer — the fastest way to spin up multinode training in under an hour.

🔥 Bring code, ideas, and curiosity.

🧠 Leave with compute credits, killer demos, and research momentum.

🚫 No slidengineers, recruiters, marketers — just Engineers, AI Researchers, students & anyone who is comfortable with PyTorch.

Two hack streams to choose from:

🏆 Competition A: ARC Prize Hack

Tackle ARC-AGI-2 — the $750K reasoning benchmark. Winners get compute credits to go all-in on the 2025 ARC Prize.

🧪 Competition B: DeepSeek Fine-Tuning Showdown

Take leaner, meaner DeepSeek models and fine-tune them into reasoning beasts. Best demo wins.

Apply now — see you April 18-19.

🗓️ Tuesday, April 22nd - Thursday, April 24
📍 Oakland, CA

Data Council is the no bullsh*t data conference. Experience 3 DAYS of cutting-edge technical talks from the brightest minds in AI & data in Oakland, CA. Our community includes AI engineers, founders, CTOs, AI researchers, Heads of Data, and investors who are all building the future of AI & data.

This year's conference features 100+ speakers, hands-on workshops, and our famous office-hours sessions where attendees can meet their AI & Data heroes in small group settings.

Keynotes and Speakers from: OpenAI, Perplexity, Meta, Datadog, Snowflake, Vectara, MotherDuck, and more! Use code CVALLEY20 for 20% off!


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This Week:

🗓️ Monday, March 31st
📍 San Francisco, CA

​CrewAI’s Enterprise AI Agent Week is HERE – and we’re kicking it off in San Francisco with Capgemini and Microsoft as hosts!

AI agents aren’t the future; they’re happening now. We’re bringing together the best minds in the space to discuss real-world enterprise use cases, lessons learned, and what’s next.

Join Gabriela de Queiroz (Director of AI, Microsoft) and Andreas Sjostrom (Director of the Applied Innovation Exchange, Capgemini) on March 31st at Capgemini San Francisco for the first event of CrewAI’s Enterprise AI Agent Week!

🗓️ Tuesday, April 1st
📍 San Francisco, CA

The SF AI Agent Meetup is a new community for agent creators, developers, and researchers exploring the evolution of AI agents. Whether you're building autonomous systems, experimenting with LLM-powered assistants, or integrating AI agents into real-world applications, this meetup is the place to discover, share insights, and collaborate with other developers. Join us for talks, demos, discussions and networking with like-minded innovators shaping the next generation of AI.


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🗓️ Wednesday, April 2nd
📍 San Francisco, CA

​Join us for an exciting evening of AI, dev tools, and food at Salesforce Tower!

​We're bringing together developers to dive into the world of AI agents.

Speakers include:


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🗓️ Thursday, April 3rd
📍 Santa Clara, CA

​Hey Bay Area AI enthusiasts! Ready to connect, learn, and have some fun? Join us for The Bay Area AI Langflow Meetup hosted by Langflow at the awesome DataStax office in Santa Clara. Whether you're an AI developer, engineer, or just someone excited about Langflow, this meetup is the perfect spot to mingle, share ideas, and geek out about all things AI.

​We'll have engaging talks from speakers, plenty of time to network with fellow AI enthusiasts, and of course, some tasty light refreshments to keep the conversations flowing.


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